Iran Accused, Cain Leaps to 1, RIM Outage

October 15, 2011

U.S./Politics

U.S. authorities said they had foiled an Iranian plot to assassinate the Saudi ambassador to Washington on American soil, a claim Iran roundly rejected. The allegations, which could help Washington make its case to other countries for tougher sanctions on Tehran for its nuclear program, come amid rising tensions between Iran and Saudi Arabia in the wake of the "Arab Spring" anti-government protests. The U.S. this week also charged a Syrian-American who was allegedly part of a campaign by Damascus to intimidate dissidents in Syria and the U.S., stepping up the confrontation between those two...